Sending ChatGPT Home Assistant State
Update: As of Core 2024.6 this is no longer necessary. The default OpenAI / ChatGPT integration prompt only sends the API your Home Assistant instance’s are...
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HomeAssistant
Using OpenAI / ChatGPT and Home Assistant to Generate a Morning Summary (as of December 2023)
I’m a little late jumping on the OpenAI / ChatGPT bandwagon, but I decided to try out Allen Porter’s seemingly infamous blueprint. However, many of the OpenA...
Automating Home Assistant Backup Copies to Azure
As an Azure architect, I wanted to leverage Azure to host my Home Assistant backups. However, I discovered a lack of add-ons or integrations that seamlessly ...
Set Up Cloudflare Zero Trust and Home Assistant
If you’d like to set up and use Cloudflare Tunnels (or Cloudlfare Teams) with Home Assistant this guide should help you get started. It heavily leverages Tob...
Using Events for Holiday or Temporary Automation
One of the big things I do with Home Assistant is call scripts via Google Assistant. We use a “goodnight” routine in Google Home that fires a script in Home ...
Adaptive Lighting Component Scripts
I’m a big fan of the Adaptive Lighting component and have it configured for most rooms in our house. I however find myself tweaking names, adding rooms, remo...
SelfHosting
Exclude a Specific Path in Cloudflare Zero Trust
To exclude a specific path in Cloudflare Zero Trust (e.g., the share URL in Paperless-ngx) you need to:
Set Up Cloudflare Zero Trust and Home Assistant
If you’d like to set up and use Cloudflare Tunnels (or Cloudlfare Teams) with Home Assistant this guide should help you get started. It heavily leverages Tob...
Creating an iOS Shortcut for Paperless
Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly been putting all of my paperwork into Paperless (first Paperless-ng and now Paperless-ngx). One of the things I’ve ...
How to Use Service Auth on Cloudflare Access
I didn’t love Cloudflare’s documentation, so here’s a (very) quick guide to using Service Auth on Cloudflare Access. This guide assumes you’ve gone through a...
SmartHome
Pairing Ikea TREDANSEN / FYRTUR Blinds
I found the documentation for the Ikea Tredansen blinds hard to follow if you’re doing anything other than using the remote right out of the box. I wrote thi...